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The flip-flop operator is a hotly contested feature of Ruby. It's still struggling to find an idiomatic use...

makandra dev

We will be installing rbenv and ruby-build from our own fork, not from the Ubuntu sources. Installing rbenv

If you get an error like this: An error occurred while installing pg (0.17.1), and Bundler cannot continue.

Microsoft Exchange service administrators can enable Exchange Web Services (EWS) which is a rather accessible XML API for interacting with...

ozmm.org

require 'net/http' module Cheat extend self # the magic ingredient def host @host ||= 'http://cheat.errtheblog.com/' end def http @http ||= Net...

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feedjira.com

Great gem to consume RSS feeds. I was missing some features on Ruby's RSS::Parser that I found in...

You know each_with_index from arrays: ['hello', 'universe'].each_with_index do |value, index| puts "#{index}: #{value}" end

So you have placed a breakpoint somewhere and now want to dig around, but not even inspecting variables is working...

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github.com

Parses URLs of social networks to extract IDs or screen names. It does not get confused by child routes: you...

makandra dev

Spreewald 1.1.0 drops the be_true and be_false matchers in order to be RSpec 3 and Ruby 2 compatible...

teohm.com

The attached post shows some alternative ways to define Strings in Ruby using the percent notation. This can be useful...

This actually works: class Klass def initialize `hi world` end def `(message) puts "Called with backticks: #{message}" end end

sysadmincasts.com

Like Railscasts or Ruby Tapas, but for Linux.

makandra dev
github.com

The debugger gem does not seem to be properly working on Ruby 2. Use byebug instead! Byebug is a simple...

rails-assets.org

Automatically builds gems from Bower packages (currently 1700 gems available). Packaged Javascript files are then automatically available in your asset...

If your requests blow up in Ruby or CURL, the server you're connecting to might only support requests with...

This card describes how to pass an array with multiple element to a JavaScript function, so that the first array...

In whenever you can schedule Ruby code directly like so: every 1.day, :at => '4:30 am' do runner "MyModel.task_to...

So you're getting an error message like the following, although your Gemfile lists shoulda-matchers and it has always...

github.com

Provides a value container that guarantees atomic updates to this value in a multi-threaded Ruby program. Originally linked to...

Since Ruby 2.1, defining a method returns its name as a Symbol: def foo() end # => :foo define_method :foo do...

chriszetter.com

"Keyword arguments" allow naming method arguments (optionally setting a default value). By using the double-splat operator, you can collect...

makandra dev
github.com

Now supports Rails 4.1 and Ruby 2.1.

github.com

Using this gem, whenever a Capybara test in Cucumber, Rspec or Minitest fails, the HTML for the failed page and...